A party that employs HEDGING techniques in order to minimize, or neutralize, RISK, often through DERIVATIVE contracts. See also HEDGE, SPECULATOR.

Computerized trading that lets investors trade and buy hedge funds based on web activity.

Limited or offsetting the loss from changes in price. It transfers risk without buying insurance.

Sums given to pay a victim of an accident or attack.

This term applies to an act that is carried out with no regard to the safety and welfare of other people.

In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.

An ancient writ that lay for the lord, who, having by right thewardship of his tenant under age. could not obtain his person, the same being carriedaway by another person. […]

The leadership of one among several independent confederate states.

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, whobegin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape fromMecca, which happened on Friday, […]

The leader of the monks in the Greek Church.

A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v.McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt. 645.

Coordinating the sequences of small production batches in the line to make the time it takes less. It is a Japanese model.

At common law . A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate inlands, tenements, or hereditaments , upon the death of his ancestor, by descent andright […]

This term is given to a person who mis certain to inherit the estate of a relative.

a phrase with the same meaning as the heir and is recognised by the law.

This term applies to an heir who will inherit an estate resulting from an agreement with the decedent.

This term applies to the person who would be heir now but if another person is born who is more closely related he wouldn’t be heir.

the name given to the person who has been left money or property by another person in a will.

Such goods and chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shallgo by special custom to the heir aloug with the inheritance , aud not to the executor.The termination “loom” […]

Succession by inheritance .

A female heir to a person having an estate of inheritance . When there aremore than one, they are called “co-heiresses,” or “co-heirs.”

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection withothers,) where it Is intended to pass a fee.

These are words found in an habendum clause in a deed that says exactly what the heirs will receive.

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heirand his ancestor.

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not tothe executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as thebest of furniture, […]